Otto Beit Bridge | |
|---|---|
 The Otto Beit Bridge at Chirundu | |
| Coordinates | 16°02′18″S 28°51′08″E / 16.03833°S 28.85222°E |
| Carries | road |
| Crosses | Zambezi River |
| Locale | Chirundu, Zambia to Chirundu, Zimbabwe, crossing the Zimbabwe-Zambia border |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Suspension Bridge |
| Total length | 382 metres (1,253 ft) |
| Longest span | 320 metres (1,050 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | Freeman Fox & Partners |
| Constructed by | Dorman Long |
| Construction start | 1938 |
| Construction end | 1939 |
| Location | |
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The Chirundu Bridge now consists of two road bridges side by side across the Zambezi River between the small town of Chirundu, Zambia and the village of Chirundu, Zimbabwe. At this location around 65 km downstream from the Kariba Dam the river is about 400 m wide.[1] The bridges were once seen as part of a Cape to Cairo Road and thus are on the Harare to Lusaka section of the route.
Chirundu is the only town on the Zambezi where two bridges cross the river.
- ^ Google Earth accessed 22 February: the bridges can be seen at decimal latitude/longitude coordinates -16.038453, 28.852057, with the north end in high definition.